Flavor

[Nunya]

I've been tweaking my game and I've ntoiced most things have a flavor assigned which presumably helps the AI make decisions. So far so good.

But when tweaking social policies I found that some of them have pretty low flavors (Order for example has 0 Expansion) and tend to be chosen a lot by the AI. On the other hand for leader flavors higher numbers seem to indicate a stronger preference.

Does anyone know anything more about how flavor works?

 

[Zen Blade]

I think this is a great topic, and I would love to see it explained more fully.

This includes how flavor affects building choices, unit choices, etc... war/hostility, etc...
And I don't mean a one or two line response. I mean a paragraph or more response for either each flavor or each object type (building, unit, etc...)
I say this because as we create new objects, we need to understand flavor to have the objects be fully incorporated.

 

[Nunya]

We need to understand it in order to allow the AI to use the stuff we add.

Okay, judging by the lack of replies I guess nobody here really knows how flavor works. Fine, then we can start by recording our experiences.

I tweaked the social policiy trees so that they're all available from the start (many policies have been rebalanced accordingly). I noticed that all the AI leaders always take Piety, Autocracy, or Order as their primary policy tree. All of these have the appropriate flavor set to 0.